Net, The (1995)Monday, December 7th, 2009 |
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Angela Bennett’s a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years she becomes embroiled in a web (sic) of computer espionage. |
Net, The (1995)Monday, December 7th, 2009 |
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Angela Bennett’s a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years she becomes embroiled in a web (sic) of computer espionage. |
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)Friday, June 5th, 2009 |
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A study of the physical and emotional intricacies affecting the everyday lives of a very diverse group of women, and the strategies they adopt in coping with events - large and small, overt and hidden - which shape the way they live. |
Baraka (1992)Thursday, May 28th, 2009 |
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Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on “where,” but on “what’s there.” It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining. Images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves. Ancient ruins come into view, and then a sacred river where pilgrims bathe and funeral pyres burn. Prayer and nature return. A monk rings a huge bell; stars wheel across the sky. |
Choke (2008)Monday, April 27th, 2009 |
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Victor Mancini, a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida, in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical re-enactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park. At night, Victor runs a scam by deliberately choking in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who “save” him. When, in a rare lucid movement, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father’s identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend, Denny and his mother’s beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall, to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever. |
Defiant Ones, The (1958)Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 |
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Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on a chain gang who hate each other. After a truck prison accident, they flee and are pursued by the police. While they’re chained, the two are dependent on one another. When they eventually get rid of their chains, their hostility has been changed into fellowship and respect. |
Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)Monday, April 13th, 2009 |
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A corrupt New York police officer’s double life as a witness protection guard, and as a mafia informant, begins to catch up with him when he’s bribed to kill a deadly female Russian assassin in custody while keeping his lifestyle a secret from both his wife and teenage mistress. |
Muppets from Space (1999)Friday, March 27th, 2009 |
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After years of feeling alone, Gonzo is contacted by his alien family through his breakfast cereal. Gonzo’s soon-persistent belief of his extraterrestrial origins leads his muppet pals to dismiss him as crazy…and draws the attention of an evil government agent who kidnaps Gonzo. Will Kermit and the gang rescue their friend? Will Gonzo finally meet his alien family? |
Wackness, The (2008)Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 |
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It’s the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter. |
Three Lives of Thomasina, The (1964)Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 |
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A young Scottish girl’s cat, Thomasina, apparently dies at the hands of her widowed veterinarian father. The strained relationship between the girl and her father is eventually repaired with the return of Thomasina and the aid of a beautiful and mysterious “witch” who seems to have powers to revive and heal animals. |
Citizen Kane (1941)Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 |
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world’s richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - “Rosebud…” What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end. |